ianfirmin

Does anyone out there have any numbers on the amount of inert gas removed from a body during decompression? If this was (has been?) measured it may give an indication of the accuracy of the compartment model.

Lets say a body (human, goat whatever) was (in the terms of the decompression model) taken from one saturation state to another and the amount of inert gas exhaled was measured then....if you could estimate the ratio of body mass in various tissue compartments and the amount of gas expected to be excreted you may be able to validate the model.

I'm also interested if the amount of inert gas expired would significantly effect the existing fractions of gas in the loop.

Any info on this??

Kind regards
Ian